The Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has just published a new report on the Effective implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights: the Interlaken process (drafted by Mrs Marie-Louise Bemelmans-Videc, The Netherlands, Group of the European People’s Party). The report’s summary reads as follows: The Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights welcomes the declaration and action plan which emerged from February’s high-level conference on the future of the European Court of Human Rights in Interlaken, especially its recognition of the basic principle that human rights must be…